May 2016 Babies

Meals/Menu

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bfelt wrote:

What do you all feed your babes? I feel like my son eats the same thing over and over. We're in between mushed up Foods & actual pieces. Breakfast is fine but I struggle with lunch and dinner. Especially dinner because LO's dinner time is earlier than ours so what we have typically isn't ready yet.

So our LO eats earlier than we do too.. so we usually have leftovers every other day so LO eats whatever we had made the night before. On days when there are no leftovers, my husband prepared a bunch of food that we have stored in the freezer for the LO to eat. We used a recipe book called "100 Baby Purees" in the back of the book they have table food recipes like different risotto's, seafood dishes, pasta dishes etc.

I boil a big batch of chunks of sweet potatoes and sprinkle a little cinnamon on them. My son kills them! He also loves frozen broccoli/cauliflower. I buy the microwaveable steam bag and that typically lasts 2-3 days. He also likes black beans and that's easy out of the can. Grilled cheese too! For lunch he has shredded cheese, shaved turkey/chicken/ham, and a yogurt or applesauce.

My baby gagged for solid 3 foods as well, but loves to feed herself anything I give her basically. I mentioned that to her dr and he said he hears that a lot about stage 3 foods and suggested just staying with stage 2 and introducing the finger foods. When they pick it up themselves, they are somewhat expecting the texture. When on the spoon, the chunks may take them by surprise. That's how it was explained to me anyway. So I didn't even bother with stage 3 after a few failed attempts. I'm sure not always the case, but was true for us.

I think she got my genes and is a natural at eating. We started with puree, soft foods, finger foods then food food. We actually got a note home from daycare that my LO was stealing food off other kids plates and it might be time to let her try letting her eat eat their prepared lunches. I put her in a high chair and gave it a go.... she did great. Your LO will let you know when he is ready. Maybe try mashed potatoes, eggs and soft foods. Or make your own food if you want some unique flavors.

My 10 month old eats pretty much what we eat. At six months we started doing the baby led weaning where we offered her a variety of solids and let her explore textures and flavors. She loves grapes, bananas, and cubed cheese so she gets those pretty regularly. Grilled cheese, baked sweet potato, and scrambled eggs are also favorites that are pretty easy to prepare for lunch or early dinner. But really whatever we are eating she gets it too just cut up so she can feed herself.

Are your little ones still having purees too? I feel like my son eats a ton. He'll have a pouch of baby food and then he gets some of whatever we are eating, plus he still nurses 5 times a day! I feel like he eats way more then I remember my first eating. He actually out eats his 4.5 year old brother! I cut their toast into sticks and they each had 3 (out of 4), but the baby had a pouch of baby food before that and my oldest only had a couple of grapes with it?! He's still only in like the 12th percentile for weight, even though he eats like a horse! Does that sound right??

This sounds exactly like my son! He's been hovering around the 10th percentile for weight, but he is a bottomless pit! We're astounded at how much such a little guy can eat. He recently dropped two nursing sessions, but before that was nursing 6 times a day, plus three big meals and sometimes an afternoon snack. His dad is very thin and has always had a crazy high metabolism, so we just assume he's taking after dad

Gagging can be startling but it's usually a good thing - it means your baby's reflexes are pushing something back toward the front of his mouth that was too big. Gagging a bit helps him realize what's too big to swallow. But follow your instincts if it makes you uncomfortable. My baby gagged often at the beginning and now chews really well.

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